"The power of excellence is overwhelming. It is always in demand, and nobody cares about its color."

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Daniel James, Jr.

#Military Quotes #Color Quotes #Excellence Quotes

“Lust is the sin that gets me excited. Luckily, because I'm married, I also get really good jewelry out of it.”
“The word is control. That's my ultimate - to have control.”
“Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.”
“The true test is, whether the object be of a local character, and local use; or, whether it be of general benefit to the states. If it be purely local, congress cannot constitutionally appropriate money for the object. But, if the benefit be general, it matters not, whether in point of locality it be in one state, or several; whether it be of large, or of small extent.”
“'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.”
“I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.”
“If there's going to be another movement, another direction in architecture, it has to engage people differently. Other than saying, here, look at this, isn't this amazing? It has to interactively involve them other than as spectators ... it has to engage them as creators.”
“A manager's most important work is helping the people doing the work. Give them a goal and let them work. Remove any impediments that get in their way. Do anything that make them more effective or productive. Then the organization can capitalize on the fruits of their work.”

Source : Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland (2012). “Software in 30 Days: How Agile Managers Beat the Odds, Delight Their Customers, And Leave Competitors In the Dust”, p.51, John Wiley & Sons

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